So is wrong to drop these accents.
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 7:21 PM, Mark Williamson<node.ue(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Since when does Spanish drop accent markers in capital
form? If you
have seen anybody do this, it is just a misspelling. For example:
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ópera or
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/África or
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Océano_Índico
I have been told that Greek drops accents in capital form but this may
not be true. Other than that, though, I am not acquainted with any
language that does such a thing (but of course that doesn't mean none
exist).
Mark
skype: node.ue
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Brion Vibber<brion(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> On 7/28/09 10:04 AM, Aryeh Gregor wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Mark Williamson<node.ue(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
>>> Case insensitivity shouldn't be a problem for any language, as long as
>>> you do it properly.
>>>
>>> Turkish and other languages using dotless i, for example, will need a
>>> special rule - Turkish lowercase dotted i capitalizes to a capital
>>> dotted İ while lowercase undotted ı capitalizes to regular undotted I.
>>
>> And so what if a wiki is multilingual and you don't know what language
>> the page name is in? What if a Turkish wiki contains some English
>> page names as loan words, for instance?
>
> Indeed, good handling of case-insensitive matchings would be a big win
> for human usability, but it's not easy to get right in all cases.
>
> The main problems are:
>
> 1) Conflicts when we really do consider something separate, but the case
> folding rules match them together
>
> 2) Language-specific case folding rules in a multilingual environment
>
> Turkish I with/without dot and German ß not always matching to SS are
> the primary examples off the top of my head. Also, some languages tend
> to drop accent markers in capital form (eg, Spanish). What can or should
> we do here?